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Looking at the volume, when cops will already be hard pressed to spot vehicles not complying with odd/even rule then who will care to stop a vehicle with fake "complying" number plate and confirm it's identity.

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I'm all for preventive measures but they should be realistic and conventional. Not sure if the Odd-Even formula can be implemented in Delhi. This was tried before in many places and it failed miserably.

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Rich people have more than two vehicles may be with an odd and an even number and this regulation will not affect the rich and richest. Many of these rich ones also adulterate fuel, that causing more pollution. I too agree that ladies should not have got this exemption. They are planning to regulate two wheeler also. Now the RTO and Govt. should get stricter in pollution checking norms as well as checking for adulterated fuel. For an immediate relief Delhi govt. have gone for this and this is an innovative and safe initial approach. Public transport is the best option but such transport will become easy targets for criminals, and hence security should be tightened within and inside-out. When Diesel engine came no body knew about the emission pollutants. After say 10-15 years some lab may come and say CNG pollutes more than Diesel. I don't know where all these industrial developments take our human race to. US knows and they are planning for a better place other than the earth.

In Mumbai, I can count thousands of taxis with not more than one passenger. This type of traffic can be regulated by distributing offices and facilities across the city and state, just like ATMs (not exactly ATM), instead of complexes.

All the state governments should plan-and-replan-and-plan for a better organization of the residential area, industrial area, commercial area etc to minimize the usage of motorized vehicles. For this the governments should take bold steps to take hold of buildings for relocation. In my opinion Tourist places also should be freed from motorized vehicles, or at least a Laxman Rekha should be defined every where required.

Corruption should be eliminated from Govt. offices and efficiency should be improved, to reduce daily visits of common man to any office. If the Govt and politicians do their job sincerely and selflessly (also we people) most of Indian problem will be solved. Be good, see good, do good.

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With mounting uncertainty and the notion of stricter emission rules to follow in the coming days ,Delhi being its hub, have today decided to go the CNG way , starting with a few petrol cars with some life left in them ,

a local denter, know to my drivers has somehow convinced them that he could do the job and also get necessary endorsement on the RC done in quick time.

As it is , we weren't able to use these vehicles for work because of the recent traffic regulations in place and thus made a lot of sense, so my two old cars at the denter have been the designated scapegoats , they had initially gone in for a denting job but now will be CNGed on their way back.

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Courts have today decided not to interfere with the Delhi Govts decision to carry on the trials up until 15 jan

Next court hearing on the matter is also slatted to be on the 15th

Delhi Govt could get into trouble with another scam, this time CNG STICKERS DISTRIBUTION SCAM

nearly 40-50 thousand more stickers than the total number of CNG vehicles registered in Delhi , have been distributed at Delhis CNG pumps for as high as 3K per sticker for Non CNG Vehicles

This just goes to show there could also be a possibility of CNG vehicles without proper Hydrotesting for CNG Cylinder safety and also for cases where CNG has not been endorsed on the RC have also been issued CNG Stickers.

For starters why were stickers more than the registered numbr of vehicles printed in the first case.

Delhites always find ways to cheat the system

Another point to ponder

If traffic officials say they have collected 1.2 crores of Challan money, just think of the undisclosed amount that these people are pocketing on a daily basis.

No wonder Delhi Police is saying that if Delhi Govt wants to go ahead and extend this Odd Even Trials they will be more than happy to Challan Delhites 2000 for violation of the rules

Can't understand how can a micro hybrid technology (even if I can call it so), which was mainly aimed at improving fuel efficiency by modulating engine start/stop, is being considered as "environment friendly".

I think we are not far off from a situation when every other manufacturer will just install these micro systems and allow their vehicles to be exempted (Mahindra already has this micro hybrid in Scorpio).

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Will these people kindly explain to me how does it cut down on the pollution emitting from a diesel engine.

So the 2-5% fuel efficiency achieved this way is the only logical answer.

No one will like their vehicles to turn off even for a minute in DELHIS smouldering summers.

Already Scorpio has this function , well most of them , barring the AUTOMATIC variant but people , the interesting thing is that it can be turned ON and OFF by a switch on the dash.

If Maruti can get away with it why shoudnt Mahindra be set free too.

It is a CLASSIC case of VW like cheating device installed on the cars.

Like VW cars could evade pollution test by these smart cheating devices , you can get away and keep on polluting in your cars just on the pretext of a switch , that they say makes it a HYBRID.

If you are that serious , hardwire this into the vehicles software , let people know that this thing will stop the enginewhen you come to a stop , which means your AIRCON and blowers will stop working and you dont even have the option of a switch that turns this feature off /on and after properly educating your customers , if you are able to sell even one car.

Will try and experience the CIAZ this weekend and see if they also have a switch

Allowing such Micro and Mild Hybrids is like actually going back on the POLLUTION CONTROL PROMISE that we are trying to achieve.

We know schools open from 16th so would be impossible for the school buses to do traffic duty from now on but then ofcouse schools only need these buses for a few hours in mornings and a few hours in the afternoon , they can thus still be pressed into service for the other hours.

Variable timings are also being advocated in delhi

Like schools start at 8

Office start at 9

Shop start at 10

Something on these lines so as to decrease bottlenecks with everyone coming out in the road at the same time.

Lets see whats the courts verdict today

I personally did not find any notable difference in the air ,though could see people more into environmentak issues over these last few days , everyone is talking green , lot of CNG and ELCTRIC talk.